Breaking the Code review " telling autistic Turing's fateful truth
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThis charismatic portrayal of a giant intellect trapped by his inability to lie brings a fresh aspect of tragedy to the Alan Turing biography industryWhen Hugh Whitemore's play based on the life of Alan Turing first appeared in 1986, the man with a key responsibility for deciphering the German Enigma code was something of an enigma himself: a hero to computer scientists but barely acknowledg…